Wives be submissive to your husbands and husbands cherish your wives.... that's the way the directive goes.... something to that effect anyway. You are not obligated to obey when you are not being cherished and certainly this is such an instance.

Tee, you cannot serve satan and God. The Lord commands you to be obedient to your husband. The Lord commands your husband to be obedient to Him. Your husband will answer to the Lord and you will be held blameless because you are obedient to your husband. Do understand what eternal life is?

I am SSSOOOOO sorry! I read this wrong, I had been up all night getting ready for the veterans day ceremonies with the cub scouts and I read it as I would be going to hell for doing what my husband demands. Well I'm not above admiting when I am wrong, and I totally messed up. I am sorry. I read it wrong and reacted before thinking, there was no excuse for that. Please forgive me.~Tee

"they must seek to fulfill their daily duties, that is as mothers and wives in an exemplary manner of holiness by pursuing the contemplative life in their homes..." ~ 3rd basic tenet of Apostolate of Holy Motherhood

Actually the scripture should be read this way:Eph: 5-22 Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body. 24 As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything. The scripture is not a suggestion nor is it conditional to the husband’s behavior.

From: How to Change Your HusbandEverything in the world has a God ordained order. It is a sign from God, of His presence. Everything that is disorder is from satan. Everything of order has a center, a head. Within the unit of the family, the children revolve around the parents, and to break it down further toward the core, the center is the husband guiding and the wife following. He is the center; he protecting; she nurturing; he fathering; she mothering – on and on. Satan, with all his strength, all his intellect, all his might, wants to destroy that individual small make-up of family, the mirror of all society, in order to bring disorder to all of society. Our Lady of Medjugorje: 8/15/1983 “Every disorder comes from satan”6/25/1995 “ satan wants to destroy the family. The family is in crisis. Pray”

I want to say that I am obedient to Matt insofar as his wants/needs do not contradict God. He does not push his beliefs down my throat at all, and to be honest, Grace can tell you, he really isn't hard to please and is a wondefully supportive husband in almost all aspects. Our faith being the most obvious and biggest issue. Other than that he is great. He works hard, he provides our physical needs, he is contantly trying to become more communicative and emotionally responsive. (He like many men I know has a hard time showing his emotions.) He knows his weakness and strives to make them stronger, he loves us all very deeply, and has made leaps and bounds in his ability to show this. He is just wiccan, and having been there I'm scared of where it can lead him and that after comming back to the church he has again left us. I love him with all my heart. I will never leave him. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God wants me here for some reason. I have had so many struggles with Matt in the past that we have overcome together. He truly is the half that makes me whole, I truly feel as if his rib was the one God ment for me to have as Eve had Adams. With all that we have been through I know that he is "one" so to speak. I never have doubted it. I haven't always LIKED it, but never doubted it.LOL He has so much internal pain that he still hasn't been able to work through or get past. When he is hurting sometimes I just even now with all the stain just want to go to him and hold him close and make him all better. lol He is not my life, that is God's, but he is the love of my life for better or for worse.~Tee

"they must seek to fulfill their daily duties, that is as mothers and wives in an exemplary manner of holiness by pursuing the contemplative life in their homes..." ~ 3rd basic tenet of Apostolate of Holy Motherhood

Keep praying for him Tee. We all get tested throughout life, his just may be lasting a little longer. Prayer will help. I may be mixing up too Bible verses, BBqed. I know there is one that tells husbands to cherish their wives.... I just don't know where it is.

The Bible gives instructions to both husbands and wives. When these instructions are followed, the chances of divorce happening is very rare. In Ephesians 5:21 we read, "Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God." The verses following give the following instructions to husbands and wives. Wives submit yourselves to your husband as to the Lord.Husbands are the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church.Lest husbands get the wrong idea, husbands are to love their wives as they love their own bodies. They are to nourish and cherish their bodies and their wives just as Christ nourishes and cherishes the church.Husbands and wives are to leave their families and bond or cleave to each other and establish another family. They become one flesh.The relationship between husband and wife is like the relationship between Christ and the church. In conclusion, husbands are to love their wives as they love themselves and the wives shall reverence their husbands.This is the biblical concept of marriage. Since marriage comes from God then shouldn't we let God be the Lord of our marriage?

Grace MizziYou must be logged in to see this link.Send Oh Lord Holy Apostles into your church“Christ has no body but yours, no hands butyours, no feet but yours.Yours are the eyes through which Christ’scompassion must look upon the world.Yours are the feet with which He is to go aboutdoing good.Yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.”St. Theresa of Avila